Re: adding more space to the existing 9.6 cluster

2019-02-21 Thread Ron
No doubt it'll take a while... You said you have 36 databases.  Could you move half of them using pg_dump/pg_restore over a few outage windows?  (Doing it in bite-sized pieces reduces risk.) On 2/21/19 2:27 AM, Julie Nishimura wrote: Thank you for the suggestions! We realized we cannot add mo

Re: adding more space to the existing 9.6 cluster

2019-02-21 Thread Julie Nishimura
Thank you for the suggestions! We realized we cannot add more space to the existing cluster due to the hardware limitations. So, we decided to go the other route by introducing new standby on a new host with bigger size for data (with pg_basebackup and putting Master into archive mode), then pro

Re: adding more space to the existing 9.6 cluster

2019-02-21 Thread Thomas Boussekey
Hello all, If I were in your situation, I would analyze if it could move only a part of the 36 databases to the new disk. * Either, I will move some of the databases to the new disk, * Either, In the largest databases, I will consider to work in multiple tablespace configuration, using the command

Re: adding more space to the existing 9.6 cluster

2019-02-20 Thread Ron
On 2/19/19 5:02 PM, Julie Nishimura wrote: Hello, we are almost out of space on our main data directory, and about to introduce new directory to our cluster. We cannot use multiple physical disks as a single volume, so we are thinking about creation new tablespace. Our current data_directory sh

adding more space to the existing 9.6 cluster

2019-02-20 Thread Julie Nishimura
Hello, we are almost out of space on our main data directory, and about to introduce new directory to our cluster. We cannot use multiple physical disks as a single volume, so we are thinking about creation new tablespace. Our current data_directory shows as follows: /data/postgresql/9.6/main po

adding more space to the existing 9.6 cluster

2019-02-19 Thread Julie Nishimura
Hello, we are almost out of space on our main data directory, and about to introduce new directory to our cluster. We cannot use multiple physical disks as a single volume, so we are thinking about creation new tablespace. Our current data_directory shows as follows: /data/postgresql/9.6/main pos